Reply to myself ...
After further digging around and getting a better
understanding of the code I now realise that interfaces.inc is not the right
file to patch as suggested in my previous post below.
This problem is related to Bug Ticket #702, which is
flagged as fixed, but appears to be still broken or again.
I have followed the instructions in Forum Topic 181 and
FAQ 1089
http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=181.0
http://faq.pfsense.org/index.php?sid=10900&lang=en&action="">
http://faq.pfsense.org/index.php?sid=10900&lang=en&action="">
Still no luck! I had a look at
/etc/inc/interfaces.inc and can confirm that the code to create
the bpalogin.conf file and start bpalogin is there in the function
interfaces_wan_bigpond_configure. I found that this function should
be called from /etc/rc.newwanip. After studing the
syslog messages closely, I found that $interface is not set
correctly in rc.newwanip. An examination of the code has
revealed the following bug:
Lines 40-48:
if($argument <> "") {
$curwanip = find_interface_ip($$argument);
$interface = convert_real_interface_to_friendly_interface_name($$argument);
if($curwanip == "")
$curwanip = get_current_wan_address();
} else {
$curwanip = get_current_wan_address();
$interface = "wan";
}
Lines 40-48:
if($argument <> "") {
$curwanip = find_interface_ip($$argument);
$interface = convert_real_interface_to_friendly_interface_name($$argument);
if($curwanip == "")
$curwanip = get_current_wan_address();
} else {
$curwanip = get_current_wan_address();
$interface = "wan";
}
Note the $$argument on lines 41 &
42! Changing these to $argument has fixed the
problem!! BPAlogin starts up correctly now.
Regards,
Günter.
From: Günter Müller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, 20 July 2006 15:27
To: support@pfsense.com
Subject: [pfSense Support] BigPond WAN - bpalogin not starting
Hi,
I'm a newbie to pfSense (using 1.0rc1) and am trying to get a BigPond Cable WAN connection working. If have selected BigPond for the WAN connection and entered the username, password, etc. correctly. I successfully get a Bigpond DHCP address, but bpalogin does not fire up!
I have checked in /var/etc, /etc and /usr/local/etc, but have not found an bpalogin.conf file that should have been created by the webConfigurator.
I'm a newbie to pfSense (using 1.0rc1) and am trying to get a BigPond Cable WAN connection working. If have selected BigPond for the WAN connection and entered the username, password, etc. correctly. I successfully get a Bigpond DHCP address, but bpalogin does not fire up!
I have checked in /var/etc, /etc and /usr/local/etc, but have not found an bpalogin.conf file that should have been created by the webConfigurator.
Hence I have
manually created the file in /var/etc (and /usr/local/etc) and started
bpalogin from the shell prompt, which worked and I now can get out to the
'Net.
A search on of
the mail-archives for "BigPond" pointed me to the file
/etc/inc/interfaces.inc. I managed to debug the file and found that
the code for Bigpond was incomplete. I added a couple of lines and it is
working for me now.
Below is a diff of
interfaces.inc and interfaces.inc.bak:
808,809d807
< $curwanip = get_current_wan_address();
< interfaces_wan_bigpond_configure($curwanip);
I hope this fix can make its way into future releases of pfsense and be of help to other BigPond users with the same problem.
808,809d807
< $curwanip = get_current_wan_address();
< interfaces_wan_bigpond_configure($curwanip);
I hope this fix can make its way into future releases of pfsense and be of help to other BigPond users with the same problem.
Regards,
Günter Müller
